Couple of thoughts-

This is a shitpost community so serious posting about complaints with lemmy is likely to be poorly received regardless of how valid the hurt is. I’m not really a shitpost kinda person for the most part, but I’m REALLY not surprised venting hasnt garnered much positive reception (honestly I’m a little surprised the votes are almost even)

And second, the posts you embedded are worse and kind-of a different things from the one being referenced. The people in the post being referenced isnt being compared to trans people on the basis that hes ugly or for any of the reasons that make him a gross person. Hes being compared to trans people in large part on aesthetic grounds and because he has though his own action created the way he looks.

I agree in several respects with your sentiment- theres a subtext to that that trans people’s appearances are manufactured and fake, and it drags trans people unrelatedly into commentary about someone people love to clown on, which feels shitty in the current political moment where trans people are being targeted. The post kinda gives me the ick, but its fundamentally not the same thing as the images you’re comparing it to where the basis of the comparison is that theyre ugly or look weird.

But no matter the point, venting on the shitpost comm was never gonna get positive reception. I was confused with how many downvotes you were getting until I saw this was the shitpost comm of all places. I’m frankly surprised you’re getting any upvotes at all, on comments or the post itself, but I’m guessing all of that is from c/all or who didn’t read the comm.